We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way — David Hockney Copy Share Image
It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The problem is, photographic dyes and printing inks aren't as good as paint, actually. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
In one gallery they actually had a notice which said No Sketching. How obnoxious! I said, How do you think these things… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools.… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I'd never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that,… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Future art that is based on appearances won't look like the art that's gone before. Even revivals of a period are not… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing.… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Once my hand has drawn something my eye has observed, I know it by heart, and I can draw it again without… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Once you start painting, you could of course get lost. I mean you get out of yourself, you don't know whether you're… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level.… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
People from the village come up and tease me: 'We hear you've started drawing on your telephone.' And I tell them, 'Well,… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure. I think there is a contradiction in an art of total… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
You can't believe any picture nowadays, if it's digital. You can't really believe. If you see me shaking hands with Mr. [Barack] Obama, it… — David Hockney Copy Share
I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees,… — David Hockney Copy Share
I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface. — David Hockney Copy Share
I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking. — David Hockney Copy Share
You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box. — David Hockney Copy Share
Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I'd never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the exact moment,… — David Hockney Copy Share
You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things… The high-tech,… — David Hockney Copy Share
When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing. — David Hockney Copy Share
In fact, I'm a bit of a slob, but I've always said my excuse, I have a higher sense of order, I can see… — David Hockney Copy Share
No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art… — David Hockney Copy Share
How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at… — David Hockney Copy Share
With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times… — David Hockney Copy Share
